Las Jaras Glou Glou 2022

Varietal Blend: 50% Zinfandel | 19% Carignan | 15% Petite Sirah | 6% Mourvèdre | 6% Chardonnay | 4% Cabernet Sauvignon

Vineyards: Gary Venturi Vineyard in Calpella, Baroni Vineyard in Redwood Valley, Eaglepoint Vineyard in Talmage, Larry Venturi Vineyard in Calpella, Tolini Vineyard in The Forks, Redwood Valley Vineyards, Dogali Vineyard in Pine Mountain, Martorana Vineyard in Dry Creek (Sonoma County), Enz Vineyard in Lime Kiln Valley (San Bonito County), Casa Santina Maria in Sonoma. All of these vineyards are organically farmed.

Winemaking: This light style red wine used many different vinification methods including carbonic maceration, traditional skin maceration, and what we call reverse saignée. The goal was always to make a layered cohesive blend. Most of the lots were fermented with carbonic maceration, a gentle process that helps to keep early-harvest wines from becoming too tannic. After 7-15 days, depending on the lot, they pressed the juice off its skins where they fermented natively in tank after 10ppm sulfur was added. Reverse saignée is when they whole cluster press tannic red grape varieties and then add that juice to a red wine fermenter. This is a way to increase the juice to skin ratio to make a lighter red wine. Then, to keep the wine bright and fresh, half of the lots were aged in barrels and half were aged in stainless steel tank. This wine received a small amount of sulfur and it was filtered prior to bottling.